GENOMICS
What is DNA?
The basic unit of life that supports all organisms.
What is a cell?
This type of medicine aims to treat disease by adding, removing, or modifying genetic material.
What is gene therapy?
This field combines statistics, computing, and data to uncover patterns and make predictions.
What is data science?
GenIB stands for.
What is genomics and integrative biology?
Humans have approximately 20,000 of these in their genome.
Proteins are built from these smaller building blocks.
What are amino acids?
Genetic medicine often seeks to replace a missing or defective copy of this.
What is a gene?
Data scientists use this type of graph to visualize relationships between two numerical variables.
What is a scatter plot?
GenIB helps discover new drug targets by turning genes on or off and measuring cellular responses using this gene editing technology.
What is CRISPR?
The process of copying DNA into RNA.
What is transcription?
This organelle is often called "the powerhouse of the cell".
What is the mitochondrion?
CRISPR technology allows scientists to do this with DNA.
What is edit or modify genes?
When scientists analyze thousands of genes at once to identify patterns, they are working with this type of dataset.
What is big data?
GenIB combines strengths in biology, genetics, gene therapy, and this discipline to better understand disease.
What is data science?
This technology allows scientists to determine the order of DNA bases in a genome.
What is DNA sequencing?
When cells respond to signals from their environment, they often activate this communication network.
What is a signaling pathway/cascade?
A disease caused by a mutation in a single gene is known as this type of disorder.
What is a monogenic disorder?
GenIB data scientists help identify meaningful signals hidden within large biological datasets. This process is called:
What is data analysis / computational biology?
Before scientists at GenIB can develop a new medicine, they must first identify a gene or protein involved in disease. This gene or protein is known as a:
What is a drug target?
This is the name for a genetic variant found in a genome.
What is an allele?
GenIB often studies disease biology, a disease biomarker is:
What is a measurable indicator of a biological process or disease state?
Scientists use viruses that have been modified to safely deliver therapeutic DNA into cells. These delivery tools are called:
What are viral vectors?
GenIB data scientists compare gene expression patterns across thousands of cells to identify similarities and differences between cell types. This type of large scale dataset is called:
What is transcriptomics?
Scientists at GenIB can screen thousands of genes at once to identify those that influence a disease. This approach is called
What is a functional genomics screen?